Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 14, 2016
Molecular recognition is a crucial issue when aiming to interpret the mechanism of known active substances as well as to develop novel active candidates. Unfortunately, simulating the binding process is still a challenging task because it requires cl...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Apr 3, 2016
Using the theory of machine learning to assist the virtual screening (VS) has been an effective plan. However, the quality of the training set may reduce because of mixing with the wrong docking poses and it will affect the screening efficiencies. To...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 3, 2015
BACKGROUND: Proteins have the fundamental ability to selectively bind to other molecules and perform specific functions through such interactions, such as protein-ligand binding. Accurate prediction of protein residues that physically bind to ligands...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 9, 2015
In a search for new anti-HIV-1 chemotypes, we developed a multistep ligand-based virtual screening (VS) protocol combining machine learning (ML) methods with the privileged structures (PS) concept. In its learning step, the VS protocol was based on H...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 4, 2015
The magnitude of the investment required to bring a drug to the market hinders medical progress, requiring hundreds of millions of dollars and years of research and development. Any innovation that improves the efficiency of the drug-discovery proces...
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology
Jul 29, 2015
Predicting the three-dimensional native structures of protein dimers, a problem known as protein-protein docking, is key to understanding molecular interactions. Docking is a computationally challenging problem due to the diversity of interactions an...
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology
Jul 21, 2015
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a serine hydrolase vital for regulating the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in animals, has been used as a target for drugs and pesticides. With the increasing availability of AChE crystal structures, with or without ligan...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
Jun 19, 2015
Structural and electronic factors influencing selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 and 5-lipoxygenase (COX-2/5-LOX) were studied by using Electronic-Topological Method combined with Neural Networks (ETM-NN), molecular docking, and Density Functio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 2, 2015
Support vector machines (SVMs) are among the preferred machine learning algorithms for virtual compound screening and activity prediction because of their frequently observed high performance levels. However, a well-known conundrum of SVMs (and other...
BACKGROUND: Molecular docking is a widely-employed method in structure-based drug design. An essential component of molecular docking programs is a scoring function (SF) that can be used to identify the most stable binding pose of a ligand, when boun...